That campaign put an end to the myth that the African people were too "uncivilised" to follow the example of the "civilised". From Wordnik.com. [MAHATMA GANDHI AND JOHN DUBE(1)] Reference
Bihar during the 2008 Kosi floods, calling it "uncivilised". From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Senior party leader Balbir Punj described it as "uncivilised". From Wordnik.com. [Zee News : India National] Reference
The Nitish-Modi spat had come out in open when the Bihar CM had termed as "uncivilised". From Wordnik.com. [Zee News : India National] Reference
Government reaction to the symbolic blood protests has been muted, but a minister attached to the prime minister's office today said it was "uncivilised". From Wordnik.com. [News]
They bombarded internet forums with angry messages, claiming that the phrase was insulting to ethnic minorities because of its supposed associations with 'uncivilised' tribes. From Wordnik.com. [Tongue Tied 3] Reference
"uncivilised" and had said that he would return the unused money. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
THE crude and uncivilised treatment National Party posters by the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A transforming society, such as ours, need not be an uncivilised society. From Wordnik.com. [Response to the debate on the State of The Nation Address] Reference
"Most uncivilised hour, I know, but we feel that time is not on our side.". From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
Dinner as uncivilised but as hospitable as could be expected at half-past nine. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Their comments pointed against Israel are unacceptable, damaging and uncivilised. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
You can forget these months in the desert and the uncivilised Arab who crossed your path. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
They have nomadic tendencies; and, in their uncivilised state, scarcely practise agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference
In most uncivilised countries the natives use their arms against the wild animals of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
They have conveyed an image of an uncivilised society that our country and people do not deserve. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Their own explanation of the cause of this uncivilised proceeding may be taken for what it is worth. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
The women of the ancient Britons seem to have been better treated than those of many uncivilised nations. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
But it was war-time, and extra roughing-it is always an accompaniment of the game in uncivilised countries. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
She accuses one of the world's great civilisations of being uncivilised because it refuses to condone theft. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Nicholas Nranzi said his brother used to refer to the IFP as an organisation for barbarians and uncivilised people. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The correlative to the depiction of the African as uncivilised "necessitated that they should have civilised masters". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The Oxford dictionary defined animals as brutish and uncivilised and this was exactly what some extreme criminals were. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But if their own ears are so uncivilised and barbarous, will not the authority of even the most learned men influence them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
So farther and farther to the east travelled the Arabs, converting the uncivilised tribes that Christianity had not reached. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Then he took farewell of all, and went by a circuitous path to a place that was hard of access, traversing forests uncivilised. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
There were few corners of the world, civilised or uncivilised, where the superintendent had not been in the course of his career. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
The Saracens think the Franks uncivilised because they grunt out their demands on the instant and fail to observe the courtesies. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The condition of a people who originally held such mystic and crude ideas is seen to-day in types of aborigines and uncivilised races. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Barnard's 1978 comment described hanging as a "slow, dirty, horrible, uncivilised and unspeakably barbaric" means to take a man's life. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The tribes differ somewhat, some being devoted to hunting, according to the ancient, uncivilised way, others take to the tilling of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
The already excellent army he proceeded to improve till it became one of the most efficient military organisations ever originated in an uncivilised country. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
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